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How Marrow Unites a Community: Chris Ishida’s Search & Discovery

For a majority of my life I have felt a little left out of the Japanese American community. This is…

Chris Ishida • March 8, 2011

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Do You Know Kung Fu? - Part 2

>> Part 1The summer after 4th grade, 1971, it was somehow decided that my older sister, my yo…

Larry Wiley • Jan. 12, 2011

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Do You Know Kung Fu? - Part 1

I was born August 19th, 1961 at the University of Chicago Lying-in Hospital, on the south side of C…

Larry Wiley • Jan. 11, 2011

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My Life Between Two Cultures - Part 2

>> Part 14. The Inoue Family Meets Their American RelativesIn 1942, my relatives, like all th…

Kyoko Inoue • Nov. 8, 2010

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Will

You never know your fate or your path in life, yet somehow I feel we cannot avoid reflecting upon o…

Ayako Kato • May 7, 2010

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A Conversation with Tatsu Aoki

Tatsu Aoki remains a prolific artist, composer, musician, filmmaker and educator, contributing to a…

Chicago Japanese American Historical Society • April 13, 2010

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Catching Lightning in a Jar

When you’re a writer, everything that happens to you is a potential story you will one day wr…

Dwight Okita • Jan. 6, 2010

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Masaru Funai Chicago Lawyer

I am a transplant in Chicago, having arrived from Hawaii with my wife, Carolyn, in 1954 to attend N…

Masaru Funai • Dec. 16, 2009

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Pictures Worth a 1000 Words

The “street photography” of Yasuhiro Ishimoto, all shot in Chicago, is nothing short of…

Paul Yamada • Dec. 1, 2009

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I Was Born in 1962 in Tokyo.....

I was born in 1962 in Tokyo. I grew up just like an average Japanese. I went to junior high, high s…

Yutaka Fujita • June 5, 2009

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